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Passerine
- adjective - perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless
- relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds
Pastelike
- adjective - resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white"
Pastorage
- - The office, jurisdiction, or duty, of a pastor; pastorate.
Pastorale
- noun - a musical composition that evokes rural life
Pastorate
- noun - pastors collectively
- the position of pastor
Pasturage
- noun - bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- succulent herbaceous vegetation of pasture land
Pathogene
- - Any microorganism which causes disease; a pathogenic organism; an infectious microorganism; a bacterium, virus, or other agent which can cause disease by infection; -- opposed to zymogene. The spelling pathogene is now archaic.
Patricide
- noun - a person who murders their father
- the murder of your father
Patrizate
- - To imitate one's father.
Patronage
- noun - (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
- a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
- be a regular customer or client of; "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could"
- customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele"
- support by being a patron of
- the act of providing approval and support; "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives"
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; "even before noon there was a considerable patronage"